Advice on co-parenting
My STBXH is about to move 2 hours away from me, which is fine, but the only issue is coming up with a schedule. His only 2 options are 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off, or our son living with him permanently, which is a straight no. I have my son most of the time, so 2 weeks of not having him is something I'm not sure I wanna do. Idk what other options besides him getting him every weekend or every other weekend. I'm not sure. My work schedule is inconsistent compared to his. I feel like there has to be another way we both don't want to lose time.
The first thing that comes to mind is when your son starts school. I'd think it could be 2 week on/off BUT that precedent will be set when your son starts kinder. You can be transparent with Ex if yall work well together. Look at schools as well, what if Ex moves to a better school district. Look at Elem, Middle and High Schools, for long term outlook. If it's best that son stay with you majority of weeks, you may have to conceed Ex gets son for majority summers, as well as extended breaks every other year or something (like in odd years Ex gets your son Xmas AND NY, shile you get Thanksgiving that odd year). There's also random long weekends, like with Spring Break of course (id think you alter those) but also the teacher work day weekends that you could offer son with with their Dad. Just thinking out loud.